Printing-plate cassette for a magazine

Abstract

Cassette for a magazine for automatically changing printing plates, the cassette being formed for receiving therein a plurality of printing plates with respective spacer elements disposed therebetween, and the printing plates being removable sequentially from the cassette, includes a device located in a marginal region of the cassette for swivellably mounting the spacer elements so that the spacer elements are swivellable out of operative range of the respective printing plates when the printing plates are being removed from the cassette.

We claim: 
     
       1. A cassette assembly for a magazine for automatically changing printing plates, comprising: a cassette having mutually opposite marginal regions and being formed for receiving therein a plurality of printing plates, a plurality of printing plates removably disposed in said cassette and respective spacer elements disposed therebetween, said printing plates being removable sequentially from said cassette, mounting means located in each of the marginal regions of said cassette for swivellably mounting said spacer elements, said mounting means comprising a respective swivel shaft common to respective pluralities of said spacer elements. 
     
     
       2. Cassette according to claim 1, wherein said marginal region is a side region of the cassette. 
     
     
       3. Cassette according to claim 1, wherein said spacer elements are formed as fan blades. 
     
     
       4. Cassette according to claim 3, wherein said blades are embodied as strips. 
     
     
       5. Cassette according to claim 4, wherein said strips are formed of plastic material. 
     
     
       6. Cassette according to claim 3, wherein said means located in said marginal region comprise a swivel shaft located at end regions of said blades opposite to a direction in which the printing plates are removable from the cassette. 
     
     
       7. A cassette assembly for a magazine for automatically changing printing plates, comprising: a cassette having mutually opposite marginal regions and being formed for receiving therein a plurality of printing plates,   a plurality of printing plates removably disposed in said cassette and respective spacer elements in the form of fan blades disposed therebetween, said printing plates being removable sequentially from said cassette,   a swivel shaft located at end regions of said fan blades opposite to a direction in which the printing plates are removable from said cassette, said swivel shaft swivellably mounting said spacer elements, and said cassette including a wall formed with a recess, said swivel elements being swivellable about said swivel shaft out of said recess and back into a position within said recess.   
     
     
       8. Cassette according to claim 7, wherein said wall is a guide rail of the cassette. 
     
     
       9. Cassette according to claim 8, including stop means for limiting swivelling movement of said blades back into said recess formed in said guide rail of the cassette. 
     
     
       10. Cassette according to claim 9, wherein said stop means comprise a marginal rib formed on the cassette. 
     
     
       11. Cassette according to claim 10, wherein said marginal rib is formed with a break-through through which said fan blades are manually manipulatable.